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and migrating south in winter to California"; no specimen was given greater 

 claim to typeship than another. A manuscript note by Charles W. Richmond 

 reads: "R.R. says type is from St. Michaels, Alaska, one of Nelson's skins"; 

 Ridgway's verbal statement no doubt led the A.O.U. Committee on Classifi- 

 cation and Nomenclature to restrict the type locality to Saint Michael. 



Aldrich {loc. cit.) found only four Saint Michael speciments of B. h. 

 minima {in sensu stricto) in the collection in 1946, of which one is a downy 

 young and another was taken by Lucien McS. Turner. Since the two adults 

 listed above are the only surviving ones collected by Nelson at Saint Michael, 

 they alone are here treated as cotypes, although in fact Turner's skin and 

 others shot by Nelson at Kotlik should probably be considered equivalent. 



Genus NESOCHEN Salvadori 



Anser hauaiensis Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 249, "pi. LXix," 1848. 

 =Nesochen sandvicensis (Vigors). See Peters, Checklist of birds of the 



world 1:151, 1931. 

 15644. Adult (sex not indicated). Mountains of Hawaii Island, 



Hawaiian Islands, Oceania. Original number 663. U.S. Exploring 



Expedition (1838-1842). 

 Cassin's MS. list indicates that he saw but one specimen, and there is only 

 one entry for the species in the museum register. 



Genus DENDROCYGNA Swainson 



Dendrocygna bicolor helva Wetmore and Peters 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 35: 42, March 20, 1922. 

 135588. Adult male. "Unlucky Lake, San Diego County," Califomia= 

 "a shallow overflow (not now in existence) from New River, in Im- 

 perial County about two miles north of the Mexican boundary at 

 Monument No. 221" [fide Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool. 

 38:265, 1932). April 30, 1894. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. 

 Original number 10730. Mexican-United States International Bound- 

 ary Commission. 



Dendrocygna autumnalis fulgens Friedmann 

 Condor 49 (5) : 190, Sept. 12, 1947. 

 112429. Adult male. Lomita Ranch, Hidalgo County, Texas. July 31, 

 1880. Collected by, or for, George B. Sennett. Original number 271. 



Dendrocygna autumnalis lucida Friedmann 

 Condor 49 (5) : 191, Sept. 12, 1947. 

 359576. Adult male. Tres Zapotes, State of Veracruz, Mexico. May 2, 

 1940. Purchased from natives by Melbourne A. Carriker, Jr. Orig- 

 inal number 818. 



